Framed carpet tile
AssigneeProduct Concepts Residential, L.L.C.
InventorRobert S. Weiner
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Abstract
A method of producing a framed carpet tile may include providing a carpet tile in accordance with the prior art techniques and then treating the carpet tile in one of various manners to provide a frame internal to side edges of the carpet tile. The treatment can include tip shearing side portions relative to an internal portion to provide at least one discontinuity, dripping colors to provide a frame, carving, burning, or otherwise providing a frame internal to the side edges of the carpet tile in various disclosed embodiments.
Claims17
A method of manufacturing a framed carpet tile comprising:
- providing a carpet tile tufted to at least one height with first, second third and fourth side edges forming a square perimeter, said carpet tile having an upper surface;
- and then
- treating the upper surface of the carpet tile to provide a frame internal to the square perimeter extending from the sides internal to the square perimeter thereby defining the frame relative to an internal portion distinguished from the frame;
- wherein the tile is directed to a first treatment station, and treating at least a first side, rotating the tile 90° and then treating at least a second side at a second treatment station thereby providing the frame through the treatment process.
A method of manufacturing a framed carpet tile comprising:
- providing a carpet tufted to at least one height with an upper surface;
- cutting carpet tile from the carpet defined by first, second third and fourth side edges forming a rectangular perimeter;
- and
- treating selected portions of the upper surface of the carpet to provide a frame internal to the rectangular perimeter of the carpet tile with an internal portion distinguishably treated relative to the at least one of frame and the treated selected portions which are side portions of the upper surface of the carpet tile with the carpet directed through a first treatment station treating at least a first side, rotated 90° and directed through a second treatment station treating at least a second side with the frame formed at the treatment stations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.